JabRef is an app built in Java, and does not use a frontend stack like [HTML, CSS, and JavaScript], React, etc., correct? I am not that experienced in application development, though I have some experience using and modifying apps built in Electron like Obsidian . They seem to have a lot of flexibil…

Obsidian is not completely open source, so if you wanted to integrate it with JabRef, you would need to use their bindings/APIs or something. JabRef uses Javafx for its UI and yes, apparently it is possible to use CSS to change its styling: https://www.callicoder.com/javafx-css-tutorial/ I haven’t…

A trivial change to the JabRef theme CSS, enabling word-wrapping in the entry table was a game changer for me! Very helpful when entries have the same or similar title until the end of the field (such as ending in “… Part I” and “… Part II”). Line wrap in entry table

The past several years have been a frustrating time as mainstream reference managers have had their features stripped and meaningful development halted while the products migrated to the web. Most of the commercial products are really licensing-platforms now as much as ‘reference managers’. I used o…

@mkdjr If you have time, you are very welcome to rewrite JabRef’s UI using HTML technology. Please get in contact with me. You can also recruit more volunteers. The reward is experience and the endless gratitude of us and the users. Based on your experience description, I estimate the time for a com…

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Siedlerchr (Christoph) March 19, 2024, 1:52pm 3

You can also take a look at GitHub - JabRef/JabRefOnline

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